From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
cem@kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] xfs: write the rg superblock when fixing it
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2026 07:20:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260714052011.GA31796@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260713215857.GG7195@frogsfrogsfrogs>
On Mon, Jul 13, 2026 at 02:58:57PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> Hrmm. Right now both superblock scrubbers don't do much for group 0,
> because both buffers are pinned to the xfs_mount, so they assume that
> there's no need to check anything. However, the ondisk super could have
> gotten corrupted (or blown away by fdisk), in which case an immediate
> crash could render the filesystem unmountable.
>
> So, I could (a) teach the super scrubbers to read the primary / rt
> super; and (b) teach them both to log the superblock and bwrite it
> immediately to shorten the window in which this could happen.
>
> What do you think?
I guess the only sensible time to scrub the sb would be early during
mount?
> Also, this patch should be calling xfs_log_sb *after* xfs_trans_getsb,
> so I'll fix that for the repost.
Oops.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-14 5:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-08 5:03 [PATCHSET] xfs: LLM-inspired bug fixes, part 1 Darrick J. Wong
2026-07-08 5:03 ` [PATCH 1/6] xfs: don't replace the wrong part of the cow fork Darrick J. Wong
2026-07-08 9:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2026-07-08 15:25 ` Darrick J. Wong
2026-07-08 17:57 ` Darrick J. Wong
2026-07-09 4:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2026-07-09 16:45 ` Darrick J. Wong
2026-07-08 5:03 ` [PATCH 2/6] xfs: don't wrap around quota ids in dqiterate Darrick J. Wong
2026-07-08 9:14 ` Christoph Hellwig
2026-07-08 5:03 ` [PATCH 3/6] xfs: use rtrefcount btree cursor in xchk_xref_is_rt_cow_staging Darrick J. Wong
2026-07-08 9:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2026-07-08 5:04 ` [PATCH 4/6] xfs: use the rt version of the cow staging checker Darrick J. Wong
2026-07-08 9:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2026-07-08 5:04 ` [PATCH 5/6] xfs: write the rg superblock when fixing it Darrick J. Wong
2026-07-13 6:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2026-07-13 21:58 ` Darrick J. Wong
2026-07-14 5:20 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2026-07-08 5:04 ` [PATCH 6/6] xfs: grab rtrmap btree when checking rgsuper Darrick J. Wong
2026-07-08 9:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
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